Dirt Floor

Living with the Law	War Crime Blues 1 Made From Dirt 2 Her Furious Angels 3 Ghost Dance 4 War Crime Blues 5 Invisible Day 6 I Can't Stand It 7 White Rider 8 Dead Cowboy Song 9 The Call Up 10 God Left Town 11 Nature Boy	Dislocation Blues The late Chris Whitley plainly found a kindred spirit in Australia's Jeff Lang, with whom he collaborated on his last recording before his 2005 death. Both are breathy vocalists and bluesy adventurers who favor a buzzsaw immediacy to more layered, polished recordings. With Whitle...	Reiter In The raw intensity and category-defying daring of this posthumous release reminds us how great was the loss when Chris Whitley died in November 2005. Reiter In is about as live an album as one can record in the studio and as close as the mercurial Whitley would come to the essence...	Hotel Vast Horizon Hotel Vast Horizon is Chris' first acoustic album of original music recorded with a band. Riveting and original, Whitley mines roots music not as an imitator but as a visionary who trades on archetypal symbols and classic riffs to fashion his own mythology. Messenger. 2003.
Rocket House Chris Whitley's Rocket House marks another shift for the man whose debut, Living with the Law, was a burst of Tom Petty-esque roots-rock. Since then, Whitley's oeuvre has become an increasingly eclectic--some would say unfocused--collection, one that reached its nadir with the gr...	Weed	Soft Dangerous Shores	Live at Martyrs'	Din of Ecstasy

AUDIO dvd - NO VIDEO
Ohhhhh, it's an AUDIO-dvd! Here DVD means "digital versatile disc" not, as we usually think of it, a "digital video disc". THERE IS NO VIDEO! This is not a video of Chris Whitley, who we all love and miss, performing the songs from one of his great CDs. This is just a souped up audio version of the CD we all have. Who knew they have DVD's without video? This is for audiophiles. Not for people looking to watch him perform his songs. Love Chris Whitley, DVD-audios, not so much. Yeah, "Dirt Floor" CD is a 5 star CD. This bait-and-switch DVD Audio 1 star, unless you realize what you're buying. Maybe you have a home theater! Then maybe this is for you. All the reviews are reviewing the CD. Come on, Amazon. Sheesh.

Chris Whitley's Dirt Floor CD
It's A Pretty Good CD. I Miss Chris Whitley. Chris Was So Great. His Style Of Music Was One Of A Kind. Love Ya Chris.

lightning
Only very rarely the first encounter with a record may struck you as lightning. The experience that you have always known this music, yet nothing will remain the same anymore. For me this was the case with Joy Division, Nick Drake's Pink Moon, Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and now Dirt Floor. Stripped to the bare essence: just Chris Whitley's voice and his dobro. This music makes you uneasy but is comforting too. Very sad he had to die so young. He seems to have played a lot in Holland, during the years he lived in Germany. Had I known him before, I would certainly have gone to see him as often as I could.

raw acoutic blues, a real winner.
this is a fantastic recording of low-down raw acoustic blues. the production has a real live flavor that is carried along by a raunchy rythmic groove. whitley is one of the few white singers who can sing the blues without sounding light-weight (or just plain silly), and his guitar playing is tough sounding, without any of that over-produced quality that so many modern blues recording suffer from. great stuff.

The Truth
Recorded in two days, in a barn in Vermont, there is nothing on this record save for gleaming chords and ferocious grimy footstomps, and a voice that makes you want to drive your car over the edge of the highest bridge in the world. When that national guitar hits you, you feel it in your chest like a physical blow, you feel it in your spine, and you feel it in your throat, somewhere between a laugh and a sob. "And the mist shall be your balanket...as the dirt shall be your bed." Let hell rise up if there is anything on this earth is as true as this album. When it's raining and you are alone, and you listen, you begin to understand what it means to be alive. Enjoy.